Reply With QuoteI got one for you CC...should be pretty easy.
True or False...
Hemisfair '68 was a world's fair.
(I know this will be really easy for you but I am trying to prove a point to some people)
duuuh...it went co-ed when they closed Ursuline...Antonian may have once been a boys school...but it's been co-ed for a while now...
I got one for you CC...should be pretty easy.
True or False...
Hemisfair '68 was a world's fair.
(I know this will be really easy for you but I am trying to prove a point to some people)
yeah...Hemisfair '68 was a worlds fair. They actually had quite a few exhibits built and staffed by other countries. my favorite was the flying aztecs in the Mexico section. I spent all my time standing in line to be on the front row close to the topless maiden "sacrifice"...then the guys would climb this tall pole that had ribbony looking ropes wrapped around it...then they would do this ceremonial dance at the top of the pole and then tie the ropes to their ankles and bail off the pole one at a time and circle the pole like human tetherballs till the ropes unwound and they got to the ground.
thats what people told me happened anyway.
I was still staring at the maidens s...
wasn't it a small lumberyard?at the intersection of blanco rd & fresno, on the ne corner, there's a convenience store / mini-strip center with a laundr-o-mat & a panaderia ...
Hemisphere - doesn't that name tell you anythng?
Useruser666 :eyebrow
OK devil boy...technically it was originally billed as a fair of the americas...but was better represented by other countries around the world...
With the "Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas" as its overall theme, HemisFair capitalized on San Antonio's ethnically mixed cultural heritage and placed particular emphasis on the city as the future center of international commerce and cultural exchange between the United States and Latin America. More than thirty nations participated, many with exhibit pavilions in the international area, named "Las Plazas del Mundo." Canada, Mexico, Italy, Spain, France, and Japan hosted large pavilions; other exhibiting nations included Belgium, Bolivia, the Republic of China, Colombia, West Germany-Berlin, Korea, Panama, Portugal, Switzerland, Thailand, and Venezuela. With less than a month before opening day, and concerned about the small number of Central and South American pavilions, officials arranged for various sponsorships through the Kampmann Foundation in San Antonio, the Good Neighbor Commissionqv in Austin, and the Pan American Forum of Texas to support a Bolivian pavilion; a five-nation Central American pavilion, representing Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica; and special pavilions of the Organization of American States, representing eleven more Latin-American countries, including Brazil, Argentina, and Peru. The United States Pavilion, on a 4.59-acre site adjacent to the international area, echoed the fair's theme with "Confluence USA"-a two-building complex featuring an exhibit structure and a massive circular theater. With additional construction, this was subsequently converted to serve as the Federal Courthouse. The largest pavilion, that of the state of Texas, was called the Ins ute of Texan Cultures, and mounted displays of many of the ethnic and national groups that formed modern Texas.
complete link:
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/lkh1.html
more pics
sorry...no pics of the topless virgin.
you are incorrect, sir !wasn't it a small lumberyard?
At one time there were two major grocery store chains in San Antonio.
H.E.B. and ?????
name the other grocery store chain.
hmmm...
the Northside ISD football stadium on 410...
what was there before that?
this should be an easy one for the people that pay attention...the old entry is still there on culebra by the street going into that industrial park behind the stadium and the industrial park is named for it...
Handy Andy
Thanks for that CC. I had some arguments about Hemisfair.
People, like User apparently, think that "Hemisfair" and "Hemisphere" mean the same thing. People don't get that "Hemisfair '68" was the le of the event which was in fact a world's fair. Its like the cicada's that pop up here every so often, they are not locusts but have been called that since I was a kid.
Did you guys know that Paisanos restaurants have their roots in Hemisfair '68? Vic Paisano and his ?brother? ran a food booth there and decided to stay after Hemisfair closed...then opened the original place on Main...
Alamo Downs.
Was I correct on the grocery store chain?
Anyone know the seafood place that used to be on Vance Jackson where Grant Street Pizza is now?
my questions that still need to be answered:
What used to be where the new "enchilada" colored downtown library now stands?What was the HEB Corporate headquarters downtown before it bacame their corporate headquarters?What was the Adams Mark Hotel building before it was remodeled?
sorry Mikey...correct on Handy Andy and Alamo Downs
Ship Ahoy?
actually Grant street is in the old KFC
Ship Ahoy was where the Burgerking is now...became ?Alfaros? mexican restaurant...the food was awful but the frozen margaritas were tequila/everclear and served in frosted beer mugs for 99 cents...
ok...next to the old KFC was a place called First Mate. It lasted until the very early 80's.
Anyone remember what used to be the major hardware store chain in town before Home Depot and Builders Square?
oh yeah...first mate...had the big guy out front in the striped shirt holding the fish by the tail...actually not bad food...
ing ripoff Handy Dan...I loved it when Builders Square put their ass out of business...
Before the national department store chains moved in there were two local competing department store chains. What were their names?
When grocery stores just sold groceries and before Wal-Mart, Target, Office Max, Toys-R-Us etc....
San Antonio had a chain of stores that carried school and office supplies, party supplys,cheap toys, and general household stuff...it was THE place to buy school supplies or a cheap toy for a kids birthday party...
what was this chain of stores?
Joske's and Frost Bros.?
As far as school supplies and such...Ben Franklin?
hmmm Frost was actually just clothes and not really a department store but I will give it to you...I was actually thinking about Wolf & Marx...
as for Ben Franklin that wasn't the one I am thinking about. The one I am talking about had stores all over town and had a regional distribution center here...I think it had stores in 5 states...
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that help?
TG&Y?
Woolco?
before then
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*tapping foot*...:wink
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